01 December 2010

Santa's Comin' (FTU, Scrap only tut)

This tutorial was written by me on December 1st, 2010 and is the result of my own ideas. Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental and unintentional.

PSP Version used: X2, but should work in other versions.

This tutorial assumes you have a good working knowledge of PSP and Animation Shop.

Supplies Needed

Scrap kit of choice: I used an awesome FTU kit called "Holly Jolly Christmas" by Heike of Fantasy Dreams Designzs. This kit is beautiful and has lots of wonderful papers and elements! My tag was made entirely using elements from the kit. Thank you sooo much for sharing it Heike!! Download link is on her blog HERE. Please be sure to leave a thank you for Heike when you grab it, it's only fair to acknowledge hard work that's freely shared. :-)

We're going to create the look of wallpaper and a carpet. Add a new raster layer and select all. Open a paper of choice and paste into selection. Deselect.

Add a new raster layer and using the rectangle selection tool, draw out a selection in the bottom third of the canvas. Flood fill the selection with a colour from the kit, I chose #a0496d. Deselect and merge down. Apply the mask to the merged layer and merge the mask group. Depending on the paper you chose, you should have something that looks like this:

Open E27 and resize 45%. Copy and paste as a new layer, move to the top left of the paper layer. Open E15 and resize 23%. Copy and paste as a new layer, move below the window frame, merge the window layer down. Using the freehand selection tool, draw a selection around the window frame, like this:

Open Paper 5 or 6, depending on your preference, resize 40% and arrange the scene at the bottom of the paper within the window. Invert selection and tap delete. Deselect.

Apply a drop shadow of choice to the window, I used H&V 2, Opacity 55, Blur 7. Now duplicate the window layer twice, for a total of three. Rename each layer Window 1, Window 2 and Window 3. Hide Window 2 and 3. We'll come back to these later.

Duplicate the paper layer twice for a total of three. Rename these layers Snow 1, Snow 2 and Snow 3. Leave Snow 1 open and hide the other two, we'll come back to this later.

Open EI18, copy and paste as a new layer, move to the right side of the window. Drop shadow.

Open EI12, copy and paste as a new layer, move to the left of the tree and below the window. Drop shadow.

Add your other elements:

EI21: resize 50%

EI14: resize 40%

EI13: resize 35%, mirror

EI25: resize 45%

EI30: resize 30%

EI31: resize 45%

EI11: resize 10% (I used this to decorate the "Santa's Comin'" saying at the bottom.)

Drop shadow all the elements you added. Make sure you're happy with the placement of everything.

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